Samuel (Gilles Lellouche), a student nurse, gets sucked into a quagmire of murder and corruption when a thug kidnaps his pregnant wife, Nadia (Elena Anaya), to blackmail him into springing Hugo (Roschdy Zem), a wounded prisoner held by the police at the Diminishing returns By PETER KEOUGH | August 12, 2011

It wasn’t the first time members of the Congressional Black Caucus had heard – and done nothing about – Sudan’s dirty secret. Even before a recent House international-relations subcommittee hearing on human-rights violations in Sudan, they knew that kid Why are African-American leaders silent about slavery in Sudan?
By TIM SANDLER | May 21, 2010

Well, enough of the funny stuff with the Oregon Ducks’ recent crime wave. This week, we’re back into the world of straight-out, nasty, pointless, idiotic violence, committed by young athletes with everything to lose and only a few bucks to gain. The fun in Oregon is over, as east-coast athletes go on a kidnapping spree By MATT TAIBBI | March 26, 2010

While reporting from Afghanistan two years ago, David Rohde became, for the second time in his career, an unwilling participant rather than an observer. On October 29, 1995, Rohde had been arrested by Bosnian Serbs. And then in November 2008, Rohde and Was the NY Times being hypocritical when it suppressed coverage of its journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban? By ADAM REILLY | February 12, 2010

From Mu, a lost land of legends, they march on America (or at least San Francisco) — the Symbionese Liberation Army. Patricia Hearst kidnapped, a media mogul's ransom, and the FBI By VIN MCLELLAN | March 30, 2009

As if the planet wasn't scarred enough from those outfits Boy George wore in the 80s - and by that horrific Crying Game imagery - London's ugliest woman has now given us the picture of him kidnapping and chain-whipping a male prostitute, then getting loc As if the planet wasn't scarred enough from those outfits Boy George wore in the 80s - and by that horrific Crying Game imagery - London's ugliest woman has now given us the picture of him kidnapping and chain-whipping a male prostitute, then getting locked in prison for a year with brown-toothed vagrants queuing to do the same to him. By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 26, 2009

On its surface, this quirky thriller from Randall Miller has indie-style appeal, with Alan Rickman in a delicious role as a gluttonous, philandering, narcissistic physics professor whose Nobel Prize win is deflated by the kidnapping of his rebellious ph A precious, hyperkinetic mess By PEG ALOI | December 03, 2008

The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on. The Huntington’s The Cry of the Reed ; Travesties by the Publick By CAROLYN CLAY | April 15, 2008

With all due respect to Isaiah (J.R.) Rider — the NBA’s all-time arrest leader who solidified his first-ballot Sports Crime Hall of Fame status last week with a decisive post-retirement kidnapping bust — there really is no news in sports this week that d Sports crime does the Super Bowl By MATT TAIBBI | February 02, 2006